A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning ...

A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a host...


Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...

A memory-wiped and defective cyborg sex slave is tossed onto the streets and taken in by a homeless ...

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when on...

Two child performers lose their money, but are saved by the masked avenger Kurama Tengu. When the ch...

Serial killer Shinju Shinagawa , called "Shinagawa Pierrot" for her clown makeup at arrest 3 years a...

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes unde...

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life ther...

A moon base is destroyed by a spaceship from Zigra which is looking to take over the planet earth to...

When a giant stone statue on Wester Island is disturbed, the legendary monster Jiger appears and hea...

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many yea...

In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s...

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he m...

In Okinawa, Ayaka Kurenai was born in the world’s greatest legendary Karate family. When she was a c...

Teenage assassins Mahiro and Chisato visit the coastal city of Miyazaki for a contract and a vacatio...

A traveling gambler becomes duty-bound to the wife and child of the yakuza he had slain and desires ...

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...

At a certain park, there is a mysterious man, who has red eyes and a black suit, that people can go ...